The supreme, the sublime, the most exclusive, the maximum expression of a fact, translates into its monetary value. The automotive industry is related to facts, things, slogans that encompass a multifaceted spectrum of cars, the building elements of this whole. The automotive field has an endless supply of productions of the most diverse facets. His best creations manifest the manufacturing potential of the industry. And they represent the reference, the focus of what science understands as the future.
The technology adopted the car to serve as a communication vehicle for its faculties, its gifts, its suitability to bring tomorrow’s creations today. That advance requires investment. That investment suggests a cost.
The cars that come from the future are usually the best and also the most expensive. Exorbitant figures that commonly translate their cutting-edge technologies into the price. The list of the ten most expensive cars on the market is often updated. The irruption in the market of Bugatti Chiron, the now recognized the best car ever invented, forces to reformulate the ranking.
Dreams on wheels, aspiration cars, the best distinction of exclusivity, treats for a few. The most expensive cars with a legal license to be driven in open traffic are designed for the smallest segment of the public. This privileged group is usually composed of tycoons, actors, boxers, soccer players, personalities related to investing part of their money in lavish, ostentatious creations.
The best of the industry in the hands of a dozen clients, this is how the logic of making the most excellent in the market works for many to admire and few enjoy it.
Ten cars that are out of common orbit, there are many parent companies that design luxury vehicles with high prices. Some of these companies decided to exaggerate and found a car suitable only for the billionaire pocket, with all the benefits, opulence and splendor that the rest of the population can only covet.
Models of Maybach, Koenigsegg, Bugatti, Ferrari, Lamborghini, and among them the creation of Horacio Pagani, a prestigious Argentine designer, and builder of luxury cars. The Pagani Huayra BC sneaks into the top 10, a true delight for dreamers. The ten most expensive cars at market price. To see and yearn.
List of the Most Expencive Cars
Maybach Exelero: USD 8 million. The German company only built a unit, which may explain its high price for the high development costs. It is speculated that Bryan “Birdman” Williams, a billionaire producer and hip hop singer, acquired this vehicle that combines luxury with features of a supercar.
Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita: USD 4.8 million. An eccentricity of the Swedish firm that has only made two units. One of them belongs to the boxer Floyd Mayweather, a figure who enjoys showing off his wealth. The peculiarity that makes it occupy the second place in the ranking may be due to its body finished in diamond woven in carbon fiber, a highly complex construction process.
Lamborghini Veneno: USD 4.5 million. The house of Sant’Agata Bolognese has the honor of placing itself among the most exclusive and expensive vehicles, both for its coupe version and its Roadster convertible variant. It only plans to produce 12 units (3 of the coupé and 9 of the Cabrio), both mounted with a 6.5 V12 engine of 750 hp that can reach 350 kilometers per hour of maximum speed.
Koenigsegg One: 1: USD 3.7 million. Again the company founded in 1994 in the Swedish city of Ängelholm gets into places of privilege. It has supreme benefits: the ability to accelerate to 400 kilometers per hour in ten seconds with a braking distance of 28 meters. Each of the 1,360 horses of this Koenigsegg has to move a few kilos of weight, in an equivalence that no other production car has achieved to date.
Lykan Hypersport: USD 3.5 million. Only seven units have built W Motors, this sports brand based in Lebanon. In its impressive exterior design, the body made entirely of carbon fiber, and its LED lights with small embedded diamonds stand out. Its engine, which yields 750 HP of power, allows you to get off the barrier of 3 seconds at 0-100 kilometers per hour (2.8 seconds) and reach 395 kilometers per hour of maximum speed.
Bugatti Chiron: USD 2.6 million. The best car in the world. In 2016 he entered the Olympus of the “hypercars” after his presentation at the Geneva Motor Show. A natural substitute for the Bugatti Veyron, everything that the new Bugatti specimen promises are simply spectacular: 1,500 HP of power, 1,500 Nm of torque, acceleration from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in 2.5 seconds and a maximum speed of 420 kilometers per hour.
Ferrari F60 America: USD 2.5 million. Maranello’s house created one of the most exclusive jewels of its inexhaustible production. Only a dozen of this marvel was created to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Ferrari on American soil. At the end of January 2016, the first of the ten units, all reserved in blue “Blue Nars”, was delivered to an anonymous buyer. It is a creation that combines the two great passions of the American customers of the brand: the V12 engine and the convertible roof.
Pagani Huayra BC: USD 2.5 million. A car with Argentine roots. Its creator Horacio Pagani was born in Casilda, Santa Fe, and founded the Pagani Automobili brand in Italy. His latest work of art is named after Huayra, alluding to the God of winds and hurricanes in the South American culture of the Aymara, and BC by Benny Caiola, a businessman friend of Pagani and famous Italian collector who died in 2010. This authentic beast will have just 20 copies (all already reserved), was exhibited at the Geneva Motor Show, and sports the Argentine flag painted on its body.
Koenigsegg Regera: USD 2.2 million. A third Koenigsegg enters the ranking of the most expensive luxury cars on the market. Recently presented at the Geneva Motor Show, it convinces with its more than 1,500 HP of power that is obtained from a complex hybrid system. This Swedish machine reaches 100 kilometers per hour in no less than 2.8 seconds.
Aston Martin One-77: USD 1.6 million. Only 77 units have been produced from one of the most exclusive Aston Martin of recent times, the One-77. Lightweight with carbon fiber, sporty DNA at the height of Aston Martin, and, fundamentally, a radical design that combines the elegance identity of a British ” gentleman ” with the toughest aggressive details that characterize this missile on wheels.